Castle Douglas

Uh, next up we have Claire Eastwood.

Claire says, "I have cousins who used to live at Castle Douglas in Scotland, which you could get to via the old A75 road, and I remember my cousins saying it was a spooky road." That's from Where Ghosts Walk.

Mm.

They call it Scotland's most haunted road most of the time.

What have I been up to? Well, it was all the stuff with the walk.

And I've just basically been doing writing and I've got a bit of editing that I'm coming together with for my Castle Douglas video, which I need to get done.

But I want to get it done before the bank.

closes in Castle Douglas.

I've given myself that as a deadline.

It has to be out before the bank closes, as it will all become apparent as to why.

A good part of the history of Castle Douglas is tied up in banking, but also in the banking crisis of the Napoleonic Wars.

Hi, McNabb! I found a book in the library, actually, about stuff to do with the Napoleonic Wars in Dumfries and Galloway.

And we've been vaccinating our sheep for Blue Tongue.

We're getting a bull ready for Castle Douglas sale shortly.

We breed pedigree livestock.

We're passionate about farming being profitable to carry on for generations to come.

mean I don't know

blue tongues giving everybody the fear like Castle Douglas got a hammer I mean those guys would get an absolute pound I mean the trade was fine

but I mean the

numbers in terms of numbers they were well back but I mean £260 for a mule gimmer That's an idea.

No, I know, but like I said, I bought yowl lambs on Monday at Castle Douglas.

They were 220 and 248, but I don't think it's a lot of money for a yowl lamb, but...

See, as long as they have her, like, I like to tip them as yellow lambs.

they? Yeah they'll get the benefit of not being any sort of blue tongue zone and all that up there Yeah

[laughs] Um, I think it was in a pub.

I think it was at the Hawk of Ayr in Castle Douglas in the pub.

Mm-hmm.

Um, and I think at the time was it Joyce Campbell was part of the Women in Ag Task Force.

But well done to the guys at, uh, Robroy, giving the guys, 'cause that's an outstanding result, so well done to them.

A few of you are saying, "Could you point to Castle Douglas on a map?" [laughs] If you want to go down to Threave

ThreaveWell, look, Castle Douglas is a very historical place in Scottish history, you know what I mean? So it's, uh-

Listen, mate, I, I couldn't care less as long as the train driver knows where we're going [laughs]

[laughs] Aye.

So it's the proper way to do it.

They've been doing it in Castle Douglas for a long, long time.

Yes, and Castle Douglas in Galloway, is it? Castle Douglas.

Is that part in Galloway in Scotland? Yeah.

Do you wait part of the world too?